Word: radars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighters and more than 100 antiaircraft SAM rockets. Ready to step in at the 25 SAM sites around the island are Cuban crews, who have had more than a year of training under Soviet instructors. There is some evidence that the Russians are pulling out their most sophisticated radar tracking systems, leaving the Cubans with second-rate equipment. Nevertheless, the SAMs remain highly dangerous weapons in itchy Cuban hands...
Scanning the Seaboard. Radar surveillance planes, which had lumbered aloft earlier, stayed up during the presidential flight to scan the area for strange aircraft. Submarines and destroyers at sea were ordered to keep a close watch on their radar screens. Air Force and Navy all-weather planes patrolled every possible air corridor from Cuba to Florida and up the East Coast. Army antiaircraft installations were at the ready. Along the whole Eastern seaboard, dozens of fighter pilots sat on alert in their cockpits...
Potted Chicken? As radarmen called fruitlessly for a course change, the big swept-wing Douglas jet crossed into Communist East Germany in the vicinity of the central Berlin air corridor. Moments later, two swift blips rose on the radar screens-Soviet MIGs in deadly pursuit. The slower-moving blip that marked the RB-66 leaped suddenly into wrenching, zigzag evasive maneuvers, four minutes later disappeared from the screen well within East German terri tory. On the ground, a German schoolboy watched the last moments of the fight: "The fighter closed on the bomber from behind and fired...
Bomb & Camera. If the All is flown over hostile territory, it may well be spotted by radar, but no known aircraft can touch it. Even the present versions carry electronic sensors under their wings and a heavy load of long-range cameras. In the event of nuclear war, a plane with the All's capabilities could fly high over a hostile land after a missile strike; its crew could note whether selected targets have been hit and destroyed. If any are still surviving, the All could radio for another salvo of Minutemen, which would arrive in 30 minutes...
...appreciate a Hugo Gernsback idea, one must first know something about Hugo. He is 79. He is a member of the American Physical Society and a friend of people like David Sarnoff and Lewis Strauss. He coined the word television. He thought of radar roughly six months before bats did. From weightlessness to squeeze-package food, he described the problems of space travel as early as 1929. Every Christmas he puts out a pamphlet called Forecast, and in it he has not only predicted some inventions that have already come to be (like the telescoping ramps that hook...